Novelty handkerchief package



June 15 1926.

E. P. GOLDSMITH NOVELTY HANDKERCHIEF PACKAGE Filed Rob. 26, 1926 INVENTOR Patented June 15, 1926.

UNITED STATES Farm- ,FFICE.

ELMEB r. GO D M T 0F NEWARKL NEW JERSEY, nssrcrnort ToivrIL na a GOLI I SMITH, or NEW YORK, N; Y., A FIRM CONSISTING or WILLIAM G. MILLER AND ELMER P. GOLDSMITH.

NOVELTY HANDKERCHIEF PACKAGE.

Application filed February 26, 1926. Serial No. 90,816.

This invention relates to fancy goods and has particular reference to novelties in the nature of gift cards, greeting, place cards, or the like.

Among the objects of the invention is to provide a peculiarly neat and attractive handkerchief package, or one consisting of a flat holder or protector and a handkerchief or its equivalent held in substantially fia-t form within or in close relation to said holder, the holder serving not only as a protector for keeping the handkerchief in neat and clean condition, but also as a carrier not only for the handkerchief but a name, message, or greeting to accompany the handkerchief or other analogous gift.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested here in, still for the purpose of illustrating a' practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which I Figure 1 is a plan view of a preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figs. 2 and 3 are vertical transverse sections of the same on the correspondingly numbered lines thereof.

Fig. A is an upper edge view as would be seen looking downward from the upper edge of Fig. 1.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings I show my improved novelty handkerchief package as embodying a card-like holder 10 of substantially fiat form but shown as comprising two plies or flaps 10" and 10", the former being in front and the latter at the rear or bottom of the package. As indicated this holder is formed prefer ably by folding the stock, in the nature of a heavy sheet of cardboard or its equivalent,

in the middle as shown at 11, lea-Ving'the ends and bottom open as shown at 12 and 13. The top edge or fold 11 is slitted, however, at 14 as shown best in Fig. 4.

The rear panel 10 is preferably. imperforate for best protection of the handkerchief The handkerchiefs H which I have manu factured and sold extensively made up in these packages are each provided with an embroidered field it which registers when the package is assembled with said window so that the fancy embroidery is visible at the window and so presents a peculiar embellishment for the package, and, moreover, the stock of-the front panel surrounding the embroidered field it constitutes a guard protecting the delicate embroidery from immediate contact not only of the handlers fingers, but other objects The bulk of the handkerchief lies in sub stantially fiat formwithin the holder or between the two panels, but for embellishment and attractiveness of appearance, portions of the remaining parts of the handkerchief are draped upon or along the edges of the holder remote fromthe window 15 where.

they may be secured as by pinning, the pins passing through or into the holder. Also a tip of the handkerchief T is threaded line, one panel thereof being provided with a window, a handkerchief extending between the plies and held in substantially flat form therebetween,- the handkerchief having an ornamented portion visible through said window and protected by the margin thereof, the folded edge portion of the holder being provided with a slot through which a tip portion of the handkerchief is laced and whence it is draped downward toward said window.

2. The herein described handkerchief ornamented portion Visible through said Window and protected by the margin thereof, portions of the handkerchief being draped 10 over the margins of the holder remote from the Window and there fastened in sub stan tially permanent position.

In testimony whereof I afiX my signature.

ELMER P. GOLDSMITH. 

